English

Students are finishing the year strongly in English. 

Year 8 students are performing soliloquies from Shakespeare’s plays, developing their skills in interpretation and performance. Year 9 students continue to study representations of people in crisis, moving from World War One poetry to multimodal texts representing humanitarian crises and displacement. A sample of Year 10 students’ creative writing about identity is shown below and our Year 11 students have begun their relevant HSC courses diligently. We wish all our HSC 2020 students the best of luck with their results and future pursuits.

Year 10 Imaginative Writing Extracts

Brooke stormed home and gloomy clouds had gathered above, accompanied by rumbling thunder. She couldn’t think, the blasts of light and booming cracks, muffled everything. As Brooke neared, her eyes met her mothers with an intense blaze. The blood inside her pulsated and a hot flush crept across the surface of her body. This rage boiled to a point where it exploded out of her and into the slammed door. Brooke’s march continued down the hallway; thump, stomp, clomp. That was until she was intercepted by her mum.

- Caitlin Wheeler

The music was so loud it made my lungs feel like mush. The bass thumped with my heartbeat, as though they were one. I liked this song. I would usually get home from school and shove the earphones in my ears and blast this song, hoping it would distract me from what was going on on the other side of the wall.The song got louder, pulling me in. It would not let go. I wanted to not only look but feel like an average high school kid so I had no choice but to join the crowd, jumping in a huddled group like Tic-Tacs being shaken in a box. I lasted about a minute before I squeezed past all of the others and eventually backed myself out of the chaos.

- Claudia Reardon

All Masako knew was that the more he concentrated on his job, the faster he could get home and spend time with his family. As he threw twenty pre-packed lunches onto the conveyor belt he thought about how powerful he could be if he had the qualities of his brother. He hated how he was the shy, weak, brother and lusted for the feeling of importance that came with being Akihito.

- Sophia O’Connell

Mr Shaun Ellis | English KLA Leader